Cooking Recipe Converter

Cooking ingredients

You may find yourself following a recipe and discovering you don't have the required measuring implement to hand. Or, you may prefer measuring in metric or imperial measurements, rather than the alternative. If either of these are the case, we've got your back with our cooking and baking unit conversion tool.

Our tool allows you to convert from standard cooking units of volume such as the tablespoon, teaspoon and cup to units of weight such as grams and pounds. You'll notice that if you are converting between units of volume and weight, you will require an ingredient density figure. The reason for this is that it's not a straight conversion — a unit of weight is different to a unit of volume. As an example, a cup of milk will weigh far more than a cup of flour.

Converting between cups, oz, tsp and grams

As well as this overall converter for cooking, we also have individual tools available for the following:

• cups to grams
• ounces and mL
• cups and mL
• pints and cups
• cups and ounces
• pounds and cups
• cups and tablespoons
• quarts and cups
• grams to cups
• ounces to grams
• grams and tablespoons
• sticks of butter
• grams to ounces
• teaspoons to grams
• grams to teaspoons
• teaspoons and mL
• mL and grams

If you're following a recipe and wondering how big a dash, pinch, smidgen or nip are, we've written a dedicated article about these small measurements.

Cooking ingredients referenced

Conversions are included for the following cooking and baking ingredients:

Agave nectar, almond flour, almonds, apples, baking powder, bananas (mashed), beets, bicarbonate of soda, bran, breadcrumbs, buckwheat, butter, cake flour, carrots (grated), cashew nuts, castor beans, castor oil, chia seeds, chocolate (powder), chocolate chips, cinnamon, cocoa beans, coconut, coconut oil, coconut sugar, coffee, condensed milk, corn, cornstarch, cream, cream cheese, cream of tartar, cranberries (dried), cumin (powdered), currants (dried), dried fruits, evaporated milk, eggs, flaxseed (ground), fruit juice, ghee, gluten-free flour, golden syrup, hazelnuts, honey, jam, lard, linseed oil, maple syrup, margarine, mascarpone, mayonnaise, milk, molasses, nutella, oats, oat milk, olive oil, palm oil, pastry flour, peanut butter, peanuts, pistachios, potatoes, powdered milk, pumpkin puree, raisins, rapeseed oil, rice, ricotta cheese, rye, salt, self-raising flour, semolina flour, sesame oil, sourdough starter, soy beans, sugar, sultanas, sunflower oil, sunflower seeds, tahini, turmeric, vanilla extract, water, whole wheat flour, yeast, yogurt, zucchini (grated).

Substance density figures have been sourced from the database provided by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations as well as other information sources. Note that cup to gram and ounce conversions for baking ingredients are available as an easy-access chart on the baking ingredient conversions page.

If there are any additional ingredients that you would like to see included in the approximations list, please do get in contact.

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